From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01BFB958 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:50:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.free-electrons.com (mail.free-electrons.com [62.4.15.54]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BE119B for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:41:55 +0200 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Jani Nikula Message-ID: <20170421084155.v77xsfupsoage6a4@piout.net> References: <87tw5jscnw.fsf@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tw5jscnw.fsf@intel.com> Cc: ksummit , Dave Airlie , Greg Kroah-Hartman , David Miller , Doug Ledford , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 20/04/2017 at 11:31:31 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Laura Abbott wrote: > > I brought up bug reporting last year and I still consider that to be > > an issue this year. A good example is > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194911 which didn't really > > make progress until I sent out a separate e-mail thread summarizing > > the bisections people did. > > The service level at https://bugzilla.kernel.org heavily depends on the > subsystem/driver. Some maintainers just ignore it completely. > MAINTAINERS now has the "B:" entry to document where maintainers want > bugs reported, and I'd like to see more maintainers document their > preferences there. > I think that addition has not been noticed by many maintainers and that is actually one of my pain point. I feel like that kind of changes that are relevant for all the maintainers are not advertised enough but I also realize you probably don't want to Cc: every maintainer on your patch. -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com